Re: [APML] Photoshop tip for healing star elongation- is this useful?

[Chris1011@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/23/2002 4:16:27 PM Central Standard Time, critter12952@yahoo.com writes:


> The following is an attached reply that Ron Wodaski made to a question on
> the SBIG users group. I'd like to know if this is a valid technique for
> film users. I don't see a problem with it, but I'm going to leave it up to
> more knowledgeable PS masters. I'm cleaning out my folders and would like
> to know if this is worth saving, or if there is a better method available.


Yes, this will work. To make it more effective, you can also rotate the entire image until the elongation lines up left to right or up-down. What really works well is to take a series of images, de-ovalize them, then average them together. You will be amazed at the results. One of the reason that CCD images tend to have higher resolution is that the imagers are used to taking lots and lots of images and stacking them. This is something that the film guys need to do. Don't be afraid of layers in Photoshop. It's easy to do.

Roland Christen